Please help me with my equine welfare research

[Jo72]

If you own or regularly look after a horse, pony or donkey please help me with my PhD research. I am running 3 online surveys to find out how people in the UK look after their horses, how they feed them and the tack and equipment they use with them. The surveys have been online for nearly a year so that I can get information across all seasons – they will be taken offline on 1st November 2007 and I desperately need as many people as possible to complete the surveys before then. I have posted a request for help with my research here before (December 2006). If you have helped me before then thank you very much - please don’t complete the surveys again unless you have changed your routine (or your horse!).
At the moment there isn’t very much information available about how people in the UK look after their horses and most research in to horses e.g. on behaviour, feeding etc focuses on racehorses. The information from this survey is needed to help make scientific research in to horses more relevant to horse owners.
If anyone can help the surveys can be found on this link:

http://www.chester.ac.uk/ccsr/au/jh_surveys.html

Thank you very much for your help
Jo Hockenhull

 

[lexiedhb]

Done em!!

 

[fredthoroughbred]

I've done them too!!

 

[alicedove]

So have I

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

Done

 

[pottamus]

Hi, I will do them for you now, but you might want to register on the www.bridleways.co.uk site too and post this on their forum too...there are a lot of users on there that could help.

 

[Jo72]

I hadn't thought of trying the bridleways site, thanks for the suggestion.
And thank you everybody who has helped me so far - I really am very grateful!

 

[Solstar]

done

 

[MagicMelon]

Will do now

 

[Donkeymad]

Should I do it seperately for each animal, I have donkeys, ponies and horses.

 

[Jo72]

Hi Donkeymad - the surveys need to be filled out with a specific animal in mind but you can do them as many times as you want, focusing on a different animal at each time. I need information about individual animals & I couldn't design the surveys to be completed if the owner has more than one animal or the survey would have gone on forever - and I don't want to ask too much of people by asking them to complete them for every animal they own. Its up to you how many times you do it, I am just very grateful for the help

 

[Donkeymad]

Sorry for the delay, I'll go do it now. Thanks